U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONOThe less you know, the more you believe.
More Bono Quotes
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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